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• Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Poetry, Existence

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.315

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• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Blessed, Men

  "Past and Present". Book by Thomas Carlyle, April 1843.

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• Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Acorns, Birth, Breeze

  1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

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• Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Years, Two, Fame

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.132

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• The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sentimental, Sentiments, Mortals

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Truth, Blessed, Voice

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

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• For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Suffering Pain, Pain And Suffering, Strive

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.293

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• It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Blessed, Heart, Greatness

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• To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Men, Muhammad

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Meditation, Silence

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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• Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Reading, Biographies

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• We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Law, Competition

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.87

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• Affectation is the product of falsehood.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Products, Falsehood

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.213

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• What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Men, Needs

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• The age of miracles is forever here.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Miracle, Forever, Age

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.151

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• Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Doe, Accidents

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”

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• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Work, Blessed

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.396, Lulu.com

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• Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, World, Almighty

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.81

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• All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Grows, Spread

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.118

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• Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Doe, Way, Let Me

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• Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Battle, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.81, Lulu.com

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• Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Tears, Behinds

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• The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Science, Heaven

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.341, Lulu.com

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• Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Men, Cities

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